DevOps: Infrastructure As Code (IaC) with Azure

Delighted to announce that my free training course on DevOps: Infrastructure As Code with Azure has just released on the Microsoft Open edX platform. The training has hours of video content, theory, labs and certification. It is primarily targeted at operations and development teams but is useful for anyone wanting to learn DevOps and it’s application in Modern Engineering environment with VSTS & Azure Automation. The course has been jointly developed by Avanade & Microsoft… You can check out the course here - DevOpsIacCourse

Introduction

Here is a two minute primer to the course…

Key Topics…

Apart from covering the essential topics such as Why DevOps and What are it’s benefits? Some of the key topics covered in the training are… Rather than call out all of the topics in each of the modules, i’ll call out some of the key topics broadly covered in the modules…

Azure Automation

Why DevOps?

What is the value of IaC in DevOps?

The combination of Azure & Infrastructure as Code

What is Azure Automation

What are Assets in Azure Automation?

Authoring & Testing RunBooks

Workflow RunBooks

Graphical RunBooks

Desired State Configuration (DSC)

What is the value of DSC in DevOps?

What is the application of DSC in DevOps?

Azure Automation DSC Pull Server

A hybrid Azure Automation use to manage AWS Servers

ARM Templates

Azure & Iac

ARM Templates and their application

ARM & Visual Studio

Introduction to Azure Dev Test Labs

Automation with Azure Dev Test Labs

Azure Dev Test Labs Bring Your Own Template (BYOT)

Infrastructure Deployment Pipelines

CI/CD for PowerShell

IaaS and PaaS, Environment Configuration and Deployment, and Optimization

How to Set up Chef in Azure

Using Chef to manage Azure IaaS workloads

Configuration Management

Cost Tracking & Optimization

If you are looking for more information on how to go from continuous integration to continuous deployment, check out my other course on DevOps that covers exactly that… You can check out the course here - DevOpsCiCdCourse

Tarun Arora

Tarun Arora is obsessed with high-quality working software, DevOps, Continuous Delivery and Agile. His core strengths are Azure, VSTS, PowerShell, SQL and WPF. He is a Microsoft MVP in Visual Studio Development Tools and the author of 'DevOps & ALM with TFS 2015'.